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...Trends in Table Settings by Lucy Staley...
...those who are selling out the cities and failing to educate the poor. I don't think it shows any love for country to be spending all our money on bombs and ignoring the rest of our problems." At the other pole is the view of Oren Lee Staley, of Corning, Iowa, a dissenter in his own right as head of the National Farmers Organization, which does not hesitate to protest U.S. farm policies. Speaking for country people, Staley says: "Although they do not understand all that is involved in Viet Nam, they do understand one thing...
Untold Story. Caught between rapidly rising farm costs (up 2% in the past year) and declining prices for their products (down 7% in the same period), farmers are bitter and increasingly rebellious. "The biggest untold story in America," declares Oren Lee Staley, head of the militant National Farmers Organization and leader of the milk-dumping drive, is the unrest and dissatisfaction of the farmers." Even na ture seems to be conspiring against them. Cutting a wide swath through the southern Great Plains, a serious drought has gravely endangered the winter wheat crop-which accounts for three-fourths of the nation...
...known as Billy to close friends, will be succeeded by Edward Staley, 62, who as vice chairman has been handling chief-executive duties for the nation's third largest (after Woolworth and Kresge) variety chain. Staley will continue an expansion program that has increased the number of stores to a present total of 1,097 and has more than doubled sales in a decade to $840 million. Old downtown stores have been closed and new, larger ones built in suburban shopping centers, where 70% of Grant's business is now located. Similarly, Grant's merchandise has been...
Newest and brashest of all is the militant National Farmers Organization. Headquartered in Corning, Iowa, N.F.O. opposes Government farm programs as vociferously as the Farm Bureau; on other matters it is even farther to the right. Under President Oren Lee Staley, 42, N.F.O. (estimated membership: 200,000 in 25 states) maintains that the only workable approach to the farm problem is to control the flow of supplies to market. Staley claims that contracts with six of the nation's 15 major hog processors are now in effect, and that grain marketing is next on the agenda...